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Any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
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psychometry
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Psychometry (from Greek : ψυχή, psukhē , "spirit, soul" and μέτρον, metron , "measure"), also known as token-object reading , or psychoscopy , is a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an ...
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n. any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements [syn: psychometrics , psychometrika ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Psychometry \Psy*chom"e*try\, n. [Psycho- + -metry.] (Physiol.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric , a.
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n. 1 The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it. 2 (context psychology English) The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality ...
Usage examples of psychometry.
I showed absolutely no trace of telepathic ability, not even after the psychometry started getting so strong.
If push came to shove, she would vote for a diagnosis of mental telepathy before she agreed with the verdict of psychometry, she decided.
Telepathy was bad enough but somehow psychometry was even more difficult to accept.
William Denton often said in his lectures that a personal relic of Shakespeare could, in half an hour, reveal more of the bard to one who had the gift of psychometry than biographers have been able to discover in 200 years.
For the main character of his case psychometry could be depended upon, and the scrap of paper his hand has touched is sufficient to give to another mind--a sensitive and sympathetic mind--clear mental pictures of what is going on.
It was, rather, a machine psychometry, literally an empathy: a feeling and more than a feeling of oneness with functioning devices.